A map of Vinnytsia from 1796 shows wooden stalls specially built for trade on the market square of the New Town (on the right bank of the Southern Bug River), surrounded by “Jewish
Yerusalymka is the name given to a district of compact Jewish settlement in Vinnytsia, which began to take shape at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries.
A synagogue for the Jewish community is a sacred place where Jews gather for communal prayer, the study of religious texts, and discussions of important community matt
An important feature of Vinnytsia’s Yerusalymka was the intricate network of its streets and courtyards—a unique mosaic of the cultural landscape of Podolian Jews.
In the work of the prominent Ukrainian historian Valentyn Otamanovskyi, Vinnytsia in the 14th–17th Centuries, a map of the old city shows a marking labeled “Yakushynets Gate.” These were a